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1 January 1883. Browning, Robert to Kent, Charles.

1 January 1883. Browning, Robert to Kent, Charles.

19. Warwick Crescent, W.
Jan. 1. ’83.
Dear Mr Kent,
Thank you most heartily for your very dear & kind letter and gift. I was taken by surprise when I met you in the street on that dim afternoon, and regretted I had not turned back—you must understand such preoccupations.
I feel your goodness in giving prominence to a word of Ld Lytton’s which gratified me much when I first saw it—in “Blackwood,” I think. I was always aware of a particular good wish on the part of the writer,—whom I greatly regarded. In collecting my memories of the many years of our acquaintance,—they amount to something like a real knowledge of him,—spite of the intervals between our meeting, caused by my absence abroad: and I am uselessly

19. Warwick Crescent, W.
Jan. 1. ’83.
Dear Mr Kent,
Thank you most heartily for your very dear & kind letter and gift. I was taken by surprise when I met you in the street on that dim afternoon, and regretted I had not turned back—you must understand such preoccupations.
I feel your goodness in giving prominence to a word of Ld Lytton’s which gratified me much when I first saw it—in “Blackwood,” I think. I was always aware of a particular good wish on the part of the writer,—whom I greatly regarded. In collecting my memories of the many years of our acquaintance,—they amount to something like a real knowledge of him,—spite of the intervals between our meeting, caused by my absence abroad: and I am uselessly